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  • Memphis Mike
    Banned
    • Jun 2001
    • 12533

    Italian Food

    Been craving Italian food lately. What else is there besides pizza, spaghetti, and lasagna? I will be making pizza later this evening. Homemade crust....not so homemade sauce. Looking for original Italian recipes. BTW, we have our first wood fired pizza restaurant in Memphis. I have yet to try it.
  • Clarkey
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 1288

    #2
    Re: Italian Food

    Saltimbocca? Sarde in Saor? Mussetto (delicious with griddled polenta slabs)?
    Last edited by Clarkey; 07-19-2018, 03:50 PM.

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    • FF
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2005
      • 1298

      #3
      Re: Italian Food

      Pesto alla Genovese

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      • David W Pratt
        Senior Member
        • May 2005
        • 12324

        #4
        Re: Italian Food

        Veal piccata
        Osso buck with risotto
        Prosciutto with ripe canteloupe
        Tomatoes with fresh mozzarella and basil
        Baked ziti
        Manicotti
        Mangia!

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        • Peerie Maa
          Old Grey Inquisitive One
          • Oct 2008
          • 62422

          #5
          Re: Italian Food

          All sorts of filled pasta
          It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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          • FF
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2005
            • 1298

            #6
            Re: Italian Food

            This weekend we had Spaghetti alla Vongole when sailing the Waddenzee. Found cockles while dried out saturday, cooked them sunday with garlic, chilipepper and some dry white wine.

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            • jonboy
              Senhor Member
              • Mar 2009
              • 3960

              #7
              Re: Italian Food

              flour and water, flour and water, flour and water, and oh, some tomatoes….I've never seen the romance of italian food...Risotto is th worst kind of rice dish, all over cooked and stodge, but cast your net a little wider in the Med and you will find , from the Genoese coast, west to Provence and South East south, down to Napoli, excellent seafood and simple fresh fish. Basic dishes are always paisano food, and good, but never, to use that awful expression , haute cuisine. Like Portugal, like Spain, fantastic fresh summer veg and fruit, seasonal fish, But Italian meat dishes are good if you like the offal and long stew style. They have the cheese, they have the cured pork, but so does every Med or Atlantic coast country. Generally not good grazing so forget the beef and lamb, unless you are in fértile green áreas. Goat is good , but Greece and Portugal do it better, There's a dish here that I used to find a replica almost, in the north , near Dolomiti, which is basically ears, nose, trotters, belly, beans and garlic. made here its called Carne Portuguese. Its delicious because it is garlic, olive oil, tomato, coriander and other field herbs, orégano, ...just pick out the wierd gristly bits if you want security and comfort. Italians have a dish which almost certainly the Romans brought to Lusitania, whole mature chicken or cockerel cooked in its own blood, feet head, beak , gizzards, and if its a beyond a laying lady chuck, probably pre-eggs or two. its called cabidela here, but I have never seen it it in a ristorante Itali, thereano. go to a piedmontese or calabrian family and you will eat well. Many south Italians haven't heard of pasta, its polenta cos wheat doesn't grow well but corn maize does.

              Osso Buco .bones and meat and a good sauce.
              Theres a variety on the south Lisbon west coast Porco Alentejana which is pork tenderloin and clams. to die for.
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              • Memphis Mike
                Banned
                • Jun 2001
                • 12533

                #8
                Re: Italian Food

                Originally posted by Peerie Maa
                All sorts of filled pasta
                Oh yes. I almost forgot. I have been fixing the stuffed ravioli with a simple sauce made from just tomatoes and salt.

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                • David G
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 89688

                  #9
                  Re: Italian Food

                  Lots of good thoughts already. I'll add just a few of my faves --

                  Marinated eggplant and/or mushrooms

                  Zuppa ala Pavese: chicken soup with poached eggs

                  Mussel soup

                  Cioppino: seafood medley soup

                  Baked artichoke heart omelet

                  Polenta w/various sauces - my fave is a cream sauce

                  Fettuccine with butter and romano (or parmesan): dead simple

                  Spinach gnocci (dumplings)

                  Spaghetti with various sauces. My two faves are clam sauce/egg and bacon sauce

                  Chicken braised with green peppers & tomatos

                  Braised pork chops with tomato & garlic

                  And then there's the Italian versions of various veggies
                  David G
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                  • Peerie Maa
                    Old Grey Inquisitive One
                    • Oct 2008
                    • 62422

                    #10
                    Re: Italian Food

                    Chicken livers, or oxtail also feature in Italian cooking. There are many combinations of veg, cheese and meat in those pasta fillings.
                    It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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                    • FF
                      Senior Member
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 1298

                      #11
                      Re: Italian Food

                      Often on the boat we have Spaghetti alla Putanesca.

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                      • Tom Montgomery
                        Lurking since 1997
                        • Sep 1999
                        • 35611

                        #12
                        Re: Italian Food

                        Go to your local library and check out two books: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan and Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali.
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                        • jonboy
                          Senhor Member
                          • Mar 2009
                          • 3960

                          #13
                          Re: Italian Food

                          That makes Italian food sound like sandwiches with different fillings, which was my point really..

                          I did get arrested by the food police in Agordino north of Verona for collecting funghi without a licence, I wasn't, as it happens, I was collecting wild growth hops for beer brewing. But the mushrooms are the dog's bollix there so no wonder they are protected. but still, what do they use them for, oh yeah, a pasta sauce.
                          If my eyes don't deceive me, there's something going on around here

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                          • Memphis Mike
                            Banned
                            • Jun 2001
                            • 12533

                            #14
                            Re: Italian Food

                            David G. What is the recipe for polenta? I have been wanting to try that. I have never had it.

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                            • Canoeyawl
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                              • Jun 2003
                              • 37698

                              #15
                              Re: Italian Food

                              Italians have fish, as many varieties and as many ways to prepare it as you could ever think of.
                              They have that green stuff too (vegetables/salad), they have meat, bread, soup, cheese and wine, deserts and pastrys
                              I think one is only limited to the imagination with Italian food.

                              Here is the short list of about 500 dishes...

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